What Do I Know About Accessibility? How Did I Learn? by Tess Carichner

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Learning about my own disabilities

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Experience from working with people with disabilities

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work-mandated training

volunteering on own time

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I learned about the existence of disability culture from building community with other neurodiverse students

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General trainings on accessibility

Learn through doing

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I have learned a lot through necessity and looking to make improvements for my students. I have also tried to attend seminars and workshops to improve my knowledge on how to create an accessible classroom.

Student - I learned about accessibility through needing accommodations as a student with disabilities

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Accessibility isn't a one size fits all. And educational environments need to have the flexibility to accommodate a wide range of needs.

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I learned things about accessibility and accommodations through colleagues and friends working in other fields. This was not something that was taught on in my MSW program

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Most of what I have learned came from my time volunteering at my undergraduate school's disability and accessibility services. I was able to proctor exams and support students using a variety of accessibility technology.

Assisting students on campus. Having great grandparents who were deaf and a brother with ASD.

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My first profession out of undergrad was a Secondary Special ed teacher. Got MSW and therapist for children with disabilities. Now work at Indiana University. Accessible educational services.

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Have attended presentations by UM SSD; family members with disability…

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I’m a speech-language pathologist so my job requires knowledge of accessibility. Today I learned about the anthology (which I hadn't heard about) and several communities at UM that I was not familiar with.

aetienne273 — 2025-04-02 18:14:44 UTC

I’m proud to know a decent amount about disability history, culture, and justice, and I’m going to be learning more for the rest of my life.

I learned a lot of this from interacting with other disabled people and taking book, film, and experiential recommendations

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I was thinking alot about student wellbeing and needs of students on college campuses. I took a disabilities studies class as an undergrad student. One of the biggest takeaways was how "didability" is based on the "norm" set by a society or institution.